HBO's 'The White Lotus' has the same blind spots as its guests
3 years, 8 months ago

HBO's 'The White Lotus' has the same blind spots as its guests

LA Times  

The following contains spoilers from HBO’s “The White Lotus.” From the Lannisters to the Roys, rich people behaving badly is a sweet spot for HBO. And colonization is a theme flicked at — though never fully developed — throughout the six-part series created, written and directed by Mike White, including Native Hawaiians’ economic and social inequality and the tourism industry’s appropriation and destruction of native culture.. For instance, we learn that Kai’s family is fighting for hereditary rights to the land the hotel was built on and that he’s working for the enemy because there are no other jobs around. Other nods to the subject include brief glimpses of Olivia and Paula’s very “liberal arts” reading, including Aimé Césaire’s “Discourse on Colonialism.” Natasha Rothwell and Murray Bartlett play resort staffers “The White Lotus,” which features nods to the link between tourism and colonialism but leaves them underdeveloped. “The White Lotus” is so focused on the selfish usurpers and every absurd detail of their horribleness that it too ignores “the help” until they’re needed to juice up the plot.

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Where to watch The White Lotus episode three
3 weeks, 6 days ago

Where to watch The White Lotus episode three

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Episode three of the new season of The White Lotus is available to …

‘The White Lotus’ critiques luxury tourism while also promoting it with partnerships
4 weeks ago

‘The White Lotus’ critiques luxury tourism while also promoting it with partnerships

LA Times  

When it premiered back in 2021, “The White Lotus” was a sharp class satire aimed at skewering high-end tourism and the elite one-percenters willing to pay $9,000 a night to relax. “The White Lotus,” which filmed its first season on location at the Four Seasons in Maui, somehow made an exclusive resort seem like a toxic pressure cooker. Somehow, a …

The White Lotus Season 3 opening credits’ hidden clues, explained by the designers.
4 weeks ago

The White Lotus Season 3 opening credits’ hidden clues, explained by the designers.

Slate  

Every season of HBO’s The White Lotus is similar but different. One of the reasons they’re attracted to the show is this nature of trying to sleuth out what’s happening, including in the titles,” Plains of Yonder co-director Mark Bashore—who, alongside co-director Katrina Crawford, designed the opening title for The White Lotus—told Slate. “It’s part of your experience.” Plains of …

White Lotus cast members point out discrepancy with season 3 experience
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4 weeks, 1 day ago

White Lotus cast members point out discrepancy with season 3 experience

The Independent  

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Isaac said the experience was “a cross between high school and Lord of the Flies”, …

White Lotus cast members point out discrepancy with season 3 experience
4 weeks, 1 day ago

White Lotus cast members point out discrepancy with season 3 experience

The Independent  

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Isaac said the experience was “a cross between high school and Lord of the Flies”, …

The White Lotus season 3 episode 2 recap: An armed robbery, money laundering scheme and MORE nudity
1 month, 1 week ago

The White Lotus season 3 episode 2 recap: An armed robbery, money laundering scheme and MORE nudity

Daily Mail  

After shocking fans with a full frontal naked scene in The White Lotus season three opener, there was even more nudity in episode two. Episode two of The White Lotus season three featured even more nudity in episode with Aimee Lou Wood's Chelsea stripping off with Walton Goggins' Rick After a dramatic day, Chelsea and Rick enjoy their alone time, …

The White Lotus takes film tourism's 'powerful marketing tool' to Thailand
1 month, 1 week ago

The White Lotus takes film tourism's 'powerful marketing tool' to Thailand

ABC  

The White Lotus has returned, welcoming a fresh batch of addictively awful characters to another lush part of the world where, despite their best efforts, someone always comes home in a body bag. Four Seasons executive vice-president and chief commercial officer Marc Speichert told ABC News the hotel and resort chain observed "significant interest" from guests following The White Lotus. …

The White Lotus season 3's Lisa, Parker Posey open up on how Thailand adds a fresh spin and more
1 month, 1 week ago

The White Lotus season 3's Lisa, Parker Posey open up on how Thailand adds a fresh spin and more

Hindustan Times  

The White Lotus has found a new pond to bloom this season. K-Pop band BLACKPINK’s member Lisa makes her acting debut with The White Lotus season 3, and she couldn’t have been happier. It’s so adventurous!” Sarah Catherine Hook, who plays Victoria’s daughter in the show, also feels that Thailand is as much a character on the show as they …

The White Lotus season 3 is out now – here’s how to watch episode one
1 month, 1 week ago

The White Lotus season 3 is out now – here’s how to watch episode one

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The first episode of season three of The White Lotus debuted Sunday evening in the US, or …

I travelled to the White Lotus hotels in Thailand and it’s no wonder the elite would choose to holiday here
1 month, 1 week ago

I travelled to the White Lotus hotels in Thailand and it’s no wonder the elite would choose to holiday here

The Independent  

Looking out over a sleepy bay from my hillside villa at Layan Life on the north coast of Phuket, I’m feeling just like Jennifer Coolidge. open image in gallery The new season of ‘The White Lotus’ was filmed at several hotels across Koh Samui and Phuket By the time I reached Phuket after a spin through Koh Samui, it had …

The White Lotus season 3 review: Sublimely stressful third run shows this satire can go anywhere in the world
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1 month, 2 weeks ago

The White Lotus season 3 review: Sublimely stressful third run shows this satire can go anywhere in the world

The Independent  

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse Loughrey Get our The Life Cinematic email for free Get our The Life Cinematic email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The experience of doing this – feeling the water stream in, …

The White Lotus on HBO keeps falling into the same trap.
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1 month, 2 weeks ago

The White Lotus on HBO keeps falling into the same trap.

Slate  

The White Lotus is back, and it’s time to check in. Although this is only the third season of Mike White’s HBO anthology, its opening movement is already so familiar it verges on ritual: a violent death is foreshadowed, although both victim and perpetrator remain a tantalizing mystery, then we flash back a week to watch another flotilla of the …

"The White Lotus" returns to luxuriate in the spiritual malaise of the rich and dissatisfied
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1 month, 2 weeks ago

"The White Lotus" returns to luxuriate in the spiritual malaise of the rich and dissatisfied

Salon  

Is the parent company of The White Lotus luxury resorts publicly traded? Blessedly, Season 3 makes room for glimpses into the locals’ lives beyond the hotel, augmenting the personal stakes for workers beyond the usual administrative staff whose prickliness co-stars in previous seasons. White has honed his vacationers’ personalities to a scientific formula, with this season’s terrible family played by …

‘The White Lotus’ Season 3 premiere: Get in the boat, we’re going to Thailand
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1 month, 2 weeks ago

‘The White Lotus’ Season 3 premiere: Get in the boat, we’re going to Thailand

LA Times  

“The White Lotus,” Mike White’s black comedy anthology series, is back on HBO for a third season. Most intriguing of all: What is Tanya’s husband Greg, last seen in Season 2 abruptly leaving Sicily for a “business meeting in Denver,” doing in Thailand with a much younger girlfriend? Now it’s time for Yvonne Villarreal, Meredith Blake and Greg Braxton, platinum-status …

‘The White Lotus’ Season 3 review: More murder, mystery and maybe enlightenment
1 month, 2 weeks ago

‘The White Lotus’ Season 3 review: More murder, mystery and maybe enlightenment

LA Times  

And so we turn to chapter three in Mike White’s semi-anthological omnibus luxury travel mystery series, “The White Lotus,” premiering Sunday on HBO. Most of the main cast is helpfully introduced as the guests debark upon the shore of the resort and meet the relevant staff, including the hotel’s manager, Fabian, and co-owner Sritala Hollinger, a former singing and film …

'The White Lotus' lands in Thailand for its most soul-searching season yet
1 month, 2 weeks ago

'The White Lotus' lands in Thailand for its most soul-searching season yet

NPR  

'The White Lotus' lands in Thailand for its most soul-searching season yet toggle caption Fabio Lovino/HBO One of the most exquisitely cynical lines in 20th century literature comes in the Italian novel The Leopard. Except for maybe Fargo, no show tackles this challenge more honorably than The White Lotus, the Emmy-grabbing HBO series in which rich, entitled white folks cause …

The White Lotus star Natasha Rothwell: ‘I’m a recovering people pleaser’
1 month, 2 weeks ago

The White Lotus star Natasha Rothwell: ‘I’m a recovering people pleaser’

The Independent  

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Like, God forbid I would advocate for myself, because other people’s needs are more important …

The White Lotus season 3 review: Sublimely stressful third run shows this satire can go anywhere in the world
1 month, 2 weeks ago

The White Lotus season 3 review: Sublimely stressful third run shows this satire can go anywhere in the world

The Independent  

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse Loughrey Get our The Life Cinematic email for free Get our The Life Cinematic email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The experience of doing this – feeling the water stream in, …

I travelled to Thailand’s White Lotus hotels to discover what to expect from season three
1 month, 4 weeks ago

I travelled to Thailand’s White Lotus hotels to discover what to expect from season three

The Independent  

Sign up to Simon Calder’s free travel email for expert advice and money-saving discounts Get Simon Calder’s Travel email Get Simon Calder’s Travel email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. open image in gallery The new season of ‘The White Lotus’ was filmed at several hotels across Koh Samui and …

Why Thailand govt is loving The White Lotus, the American black comedy drama
2 months ago

Why Thailand govt is loving The White Lotus, the American black comedy drama

Firstpost  

The new season, set to premiere on February 16, was filmed across multiple locations in Thailand, rather than at a single resort, broadening the potential economic impact White Lotus Season 3 is set in Thailand. Thailand braces for White Lotus fever The new season, set to premiere on February 16, was filmed across multiple locations in Thailand, rather than at …

The White Lotus season 3 release date is sooner than you think
3 months, 2 weeks ago

The White Lotus season 3 release date is sooner than you think

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Season three of The White Lotus will debut on 16 February on Max and takes place in …

Watch: The White Lotus Season 3 teaser, release date out. Lisa leaves a mark
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3 months, 2 weeks ago

Watch: The White Lotus Season 3 teaser, release date out. Lisa leaves a mark

India Today  

The teaser of White Lotus 3 is here. The White Lotus Season 3 will introduce an entirely new set of characters, with one familiar face making a comeback—Natasha Rothwell, reprising her role as spa manager Belinda Lindsey. The new cast lineup is equally exciting, featuring Carrie Coon, Scott Glenn, Walton Goggins, Leslie Bibb, Michelle Monaghan, Parker Posey, BLACKPINK’s Lisa, Dom …

Thailand’s starring role in ‘The White Lotus’ is about to pay off
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Thailand’s starring role in ‘The White Lotus’ is about to pay off

LA Times  

Mike White, the creator of the HBO series “The White Lotus,” was in Thailand searching for the perfect place to film the show’s third season. Most of the third season of “The White Lotus” was filmed at the Four Seasons Resort Koh Samui, a 43-acre luxury beach resort that expects bookings to surge after the episodes air next year. It’s …

Emmy 2023: The White Lotus to compete in the Drama Category
2 years, 1 month ago

Emmy 2023: The White Lotus to compete in the Drama Category

Hindustan Times  

The hit HBO series, The White Lotus, has been renewed for a third season and will no longer be considered in the Limited or Anthology Series category at the 2023 Emmys. Despite winning nine awards, including Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series and Supporting Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series for Jennifer Coolidge, the show will now be competing in …

Watch ‘White Lotus’ Actors Panic When They Accidentally Spoiled The Ending Last Month
2 years, 3 months ago

Watch ‘White Lotus’ Actors Panic When They Accidentally Spoiled The Ending Last Month

Huff Post  

From left: Simona Tabasco, Beatrice Grannò and Sabrina Impacciatore trying to cover up a major “White Lotus” spoiler in an HBO promo video from November. It turns out that last month, the cast of “The White Lotus” slipped up and told viewers the ending of Season 2 in a promotional video for HBO. The accidental reveal, which was spotted by …

The White Lotus review: Rich people suffer again in this grim yet glorious tale of depravity
2 years, 3 months ago

The White Lotus review: Rich people suffer again in this grim yet glorious tale of depravity

Firstpost  

In a scene from the second season of The White Lotus, Quentin, played by Tom Hollander raises a toast to the perennially mopey Tanya,. The White Lotus has always been full of people who understand that it’s probably as artistic to impress your adjacency to art than to actually re-appeal its intellectual worth. Season 2 of the White Lotus, unlike …

The White Lotus, season 2 finale review: Blistering conclusion confirms the series as TV’s hottest property
2 years, 3 months ago

The White Lotus, season 2 finale review: Blistering conclusion confirms the series as TV’s hottest property

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The cast was an unassuming mix of actors who …

How HBO’s ‘White Lotus’ captures the theater of the tourism industry
2 years, 3 months ago

How HBO’s ‘White Lotus’ captures the theater of the tourism industry

LA Times  

Valentina and her staff turn out to greet guests in the second season of HBO’s “The White Lotus.” If you were asked to sum up the travel industry in a single scene, the opening moments of HBO’s vacation dramedy “The White Lotus” would be the place to look. “Across the United States, towns devastated by capital flight, technological shifts, or …

All about ‘The White Lotus’ season 2: Sex, perception and narcissism
2 years, 4 months ago

All about ‘The White Lotus’ season 2: Sex, perception and narcissism

The Hindu  

Sabrina Impacciatore, who plays the resort manager, Valentina, in the second season of Mark White’s exquisite social satire, The White Lotus, did not sleep for weeks after she got the role. Bartlett’s character explodes while Valentina is implosive.” ‘Like eating cherries or chips’ When she got the call for the self-tape, Sabrina says she had not watched the series. There …

The White Lotus 2 review: Sex-fuelled drama skewers the rich once again
2 years, 4 months ago

The White Lotus 2 review: Sex-fuelled drama skewers the rich once again

Hindustan Times  

Mike White is back to stab and skewer the rich once again with the second season of HBO’s The White Lotus. While the perfect and poetically tragic end to the first season could make you doubt the need for a sequel, White makes sure things stay thematically similar while serving up fresh, equally appetising roast of another batch of affluent …

The White Lotus season 2 review: The dark, delicious whosnuffedit returns
2 years, 4 months ago

The White Lotus season 2 review: The dark, delicious whosnuffedit returns

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. When the first season of Mike White’s ensemble black …

Welcome back to The White Lotus – here’s who we think is dead
2 years, 4 months ago

Welcome back to The White Lotus – here’s who we think is dead

The Independent  

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The first season of HBO’s deliciously sneery social satire, which followed three sets of wealthy …

The White Lotus Season 2 takes on a totally different subject.
2 years, 5 months ago

The White Lotus Season 2 takes on a totally different subject.

Slate  

It begins with a corpse. As on the first season of Mike White’s pandemic-era hit—and on HBO’s smash Big Little Lies, from which he borrowed the tactic—the corpse assures us that not every one of the show’s characters, many of whom seem impossibly insulated by wealth and privilege, will end the week as they began it. The White Lotus’ rooms …

‘The White Lotus’ Tells A Richer Tale In Season 2, But Doesn’t Quite Eat The Rich
2 years, 5 months ago

‘The White Lotus’ Tells A Richer Tale In Season 2, But Doesn’t Quite Eat The Rich

Huff Post  

Sabrina Impacciatore in season 2 of HBO's "The White Lotus." Fabio Lovino/HBO The most interesting parts of the first season of “The White Lotus” were the stories being told around the show’s edges. Season 2 of Mike White’s anthology series, which begins Sunday on HBO — the premier destination for “eat the rich” shows — follows a similar structure to …

‘The White Lotus’ returns for Season 2, slowed down and sexed up
2 years, 5 months ago

‘The White Lotus’ returns for Season 2, slowed down and sexed up

LA Times  

Mike White’s sorrows-of-the-rich comedy “The White Lotus” returns Sunday to HBO with a second season, set in Sicily. Aubrey Plaza, from left, Will Sharpe, Theo James and Meghann Fahy in “The White Lotus.” As in Italian comedies of the Marcello Mastroianni and Sophia Loren era, sex is very much on the menu, but also sex as it relates, or doesn’t, …

The White Lotus season 2 review: A less memorable vacation
2 years, 5 months ago

The White Lotus season 2 review: A less memorable vacation

Live Mint  

Halfway through the new season of The White Lotus — which was one of the finest shows of last year — I wondered if creator Mike White was borrowing from a 20-year-old Abbas-Mustan film. The first season, shot during the pandemic, forced the characters to holiday within the resort,which made the show about resort life itself — we viewers knew …

White Lotus review: The show that skewers the super-rich
2 years, 5 months ago

White Lotus review: The show that skewers the super-rich

BBC  

White Lotus review: The show that skewers the super-rich Sky Set in Sicily, the follow-up to the Emmy-winning first series is "less caustic", but has "more secrets and lies", writes Caryn James. More Tanya is the only major character returning for the disarming White Lotus season two, which plops American guests down at a resort in Sicily, or rather a …

Jennifer Coolidge and Aubrey Plaza lead cast of The White Lotus as tensions simmer in new trailer
2 years, 5 months ago

Jennifer Coolidge and Aubrey Plaza lead cast of The White Lotus as tensions simmer in new trailer

Daily Mail  

Murder and mayhem in paradise? The new trailer for the upcoming series has been released and features returning castmember Jennifer Coolidge alongside a host of new characters who are checking into the exclusive hotel, this time in Sicily. It's business as usual at The White Lotus as the hit HBO series returns for a second season Speaking to a member …

Meet the new guests checking in to Season 2 of HBO Max’s ‘The White Lotus’
2 years, 5 months ago

Meet the new guests checking in to Season 2 of HBO Max’s ‘The White Lotus’

LA Times  

Little is still what it seems at another White Lotus resort halfway across the world, certainly souring la dolce vita for the fabled hotel chain’s latest round of guests. The trailer for the Emmy-winning series’ highly anticipated second season checked in on Thursday, introducing new guests, the picture-perfect Sicilian locale and one chronic visitor: Jennifer Coolidge’s well-heeled Tanya McQuoid, who’s …

Jake Lacy becomes a lead after years of supporting roles
2 years, 5 months ago

Jake Lacy becomes a lead after years of supporting roles

Associated Press  

While most people slowed down during the pandemic, Jake Lacy’s schedule accelerated. That’s it.” Lacy has been recognizable for more than a decade, popping up, for instance, on the final season of “The Office” as Pete, a new salesman at Dunder Mifflin, or as a suitor for Rooney Mara in “Carol.” There was also a recurring role as Lena Dunham’s …

The White Lotus fans delight in Murray Bartlett’s first Emmy win: ‘Easily call of the night’
2 years, 6 months ago

The White Lotus fans delight in Murray Bartlett’s first Emmy win: ‘Easily call of the night’

The Independent  

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Murray Bartlett took home his very first Emmy Award at Monday’s …

4 not too deep questions for the ‘White Lotus’ cast
2 years, 9 months ago

4 not too deep questions for the ‘White Lotus’ cast

LA Times  

HBO’s “The White Lotus” featured not only one of the twistier plots to come out of TV this past season, but the series — a mix of social satire and whodunit based at a Hawaiian luxury resort — also featured one of the larger ensembles of the year. Jennifer Coolidge plays a guest at a tropical resort and Murray Bartlett …

‘The White Lotus’ review: Riveting, disturbing viewing along with a fabulous star cast
3 years, 7 months ago

‘The White Lotus’ review: Riveting, disturbing viewing along with a fabulous star cast

The Hindu  

There are no easy answers to the many questions that Mike White’s sharply-written social satire, The White Lotus throws up. The White Lotus, which looks at a set of rich, white people over a week’s vacation in an exclusive resort in Hawaii, is a bleak and beautiful dissertation of privilege and exploitation. The White Lotus Season: 1 Creator: Mike White …

The White Lotus review: Mike White pulverises privilege in spectacular HBO satire
3 years, 7 months ago

The White Lotus review: Mike White pulverises privilege in spectacular HBO satire

Hindustan Times  

From Mike White, the creator of Enlightened — the best HBO show you’ve never seen — comes The White Lotus, one of those rare television experiences that’ll give you withdrawal symptoms when it’s over. The White Lotus review: Alexandra Daddario in a still from Mike White's new HBO show. The one-percent is satirised with zero remorse in The White Lotus, …

The White Lotus review: HBO’s new vanity fair, streaming on Disney+Hotstar, is a class satire without a hero
3 years, 7 months ago

The White Lotus review: HBO’s new vanity fair, streaming on Disney+Hotstar, is a class satire without a hero

Firstpost  

Awful rich people’s all-inclusive Hawaiian vacation turns into Agatha Christie murder mystery. The White Lotus, HBO’s delicious new skewering of the rich, white and privileged, is like an Onion article come to life. “With White Lotus, I wanted it to be more, like, this is your next-door-neighbour rich person who is part of the system.” It’s true. Knives Out, Parasite, …

The White Lotus review: This nightmarish vision of paradise is the comedy of the year
3 years, 7 months ago

The White Lotus review: This nightmarish vision of paradise is the comedy of the year

The Independent  

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse Loughrey Get our The Life Cinematic email for free Get our The Life Cinematic email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Yet that’s exactly how The White Lotus greets us. “They get …

White Lotus finale: The HBO series' biggest mystery wasn’t who died.
3 years, 7 months ago

White Lotus finale: The HBO series' biggest mystery wasn’t who died.

Slate  

How free are we, really? This may not be the first question that pops into your mind when watching Mike White’s The White Lotus, but as the summer smash finishes its self-contained first season, I think you ought to consider it the big one. The outcome is not only written in the script, it’s written in the stars—or, in The …

“White Lotus” star bids Aloha to a shocking finale: “Privileged, rich people get away with stuff”
3 years, 7 months ago

“White Lotus” star bids Aloha to a shocking finale: “Privileged, rich people get away with stuff”

Salon  

As tourist visits — and with them, COVID infection rates — surge in Hawaii, HBO Max's subversive satire "The White Lotus," concluded its first season on Sunday. There's something about "The White Lotus" that's felt almost prophetic, as if the show, filmed last summer, predicted how many privileged people would flock to escape to Hawaii at the first chance, with …

‘The White Lotus’ drops a bomb in its wild finale. We break it all down
3 years, 7 months ago

‘The White Lotus’ drops a bomb in its wild finale. We break it all down

LA Times  

The following contains spoilers from the Season 1 finale of “The White Lotus.” “The White Lotus,” writer-director Mike White’s sinister satire of Western imperialism, luxury tourism, the class divide and Oberlin College reading lists, has emerged as the most talked-about TV series of the summer. Sunday’s season — not series — finale may tie up the loose ends of its …

’The White Lotus’ review: A getaway that’s more than escape
3 years, 7 months ago

’The White Lotus’ review: A getaway that’s more than escape

Live Mint  

You can tell a lot about a person by the books they carry on vacation. Therefore two precocious and nasty young ladies sit poolside in a gorgeous Hawaiian resort reading The Portable Nietzsche and Sigmund Freud’s The Interpretation Of Dreams, an insecure journalist reading Elena Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend, and — most accusingly — her bratty husband reading Malcolm Gladwell’s …

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